Jewish welterweight Cletus "The Hebrew Hammer" Seldin won by a third-round knockout, bringing his record to 9-0.

For Seldin, 26, his knockout of Carl “The Assassin” McNickles of Chicago on Saturday in Westbury, N.Y., was the sixth of his pro boxing career. The East Side Boxing blog calls Seldin a Long Island fan favorite.

Seldin told the Algemeiner website in an interview earlier this year that he wears a Star of David on his trunks and on his jacket.

Like millions of people around the world, I have been waiting for the day that Manny and Floyd will get in the ring and have at it. Proving for once and for all who the better fighter is, but I don’t imagine it will ever happen. Why fight in the ring and risk humiliation when...

I love Manny, and because of him I am falling in love with boxing. He is a hero, an inspiration, and the welterweight champion. I think he is divine and I will always be on his side, but the fight tonight was close. So close in fact, that one could argue the wrong decision was...

In many ways, Carolina Raquel Duer is a typical middle-class Jewish kid. She attended a Jewish day school, spent time working and traveling in Israel and celebrated her bat mitzvah at a Conservative synagogue.

But when she steps into the ring tonight at Club Atletico Lanus, she will...

Last night I went to the “Knocking out Addiction” boxing event that was held on the roof of the Peterson Automotive Museum here in LA. It was a fundraising event for Beit T’Shuvah, which is both a residential treatment center for addiction, as well as a temple. I volunteer...

I love Manny Pacquiao. I think he is an amazing human being and it is my new mission to meet him. I want to shake his hand and tell him I love him. By shaking his hand of course I mean I want to hug him. I am quite certain that if this happens, or rather when this happens, I will...

Yesterday I posted a blog about the battle between Manny and Floyd. I am a huge fan of Manny as both a boxer and a man. I have written of my love for Manny Pacquiao several times before and it was well received. I got lovely emails from his fans and an outpouring of love from the...

I love Manny Pacquiao. Love him. While not a long time fan of the sport of boxing, I love to watch Manny in the ring. He is magical. Not only as an athlete, but also as a human being. I tend to be attracted to Jewish men who are older and taller than me, but when it comes to...

Manny is fighting tonight against Shane Mosley. He will win. I’m certain of it. Shane is impressive certainly, and at 39 years old, bravo to him to giving it a shot, but Manny will win. I’d be willing to put money on it.

Orthodox Jewish boxer Dmitriy Salita scored a knockout in the third round to take the vacant New York State welterweight title.

Salita, of Brooklyn, N.Y., defeated James Wayka on Dec. 16 at the Roseland Ballroom in Manhattan. Wayka was brought in as a substitute at the last minute for the ill Mike Anchondo, whom Salita was slated to fight for the International Boxing Association welterweight title.

The reggae artist Matisyahu rapped as Salita made his way to the ring as the headliner for the nine-fight card.

The era of Jewish boxers -- tough guys from the ghettos, like Benny Leonard and Barney Ross -- is over. For that matter, the era of boxing itself, once king of all American sports, has passed, as well. In that regard, Dmitriy Salita is doubly a throwback, being both...

Woody Allen's oft-told joke about the paucity of Jewish sports heroes reinforces stereotypes going back centuries. A noteworthy example comes from sociologist Edward Ross, a Protestant, who about 100 years ago had this to say about Jews: "On the physical side, the Hebrews are the...

Canadian music maker Socalled has drawn from so many different influences to create his new album, "Ghettoblaster," that it's impossible to fit it into any genre. And why would you want to? The ever-inventive artist combines rock, hip-hop, funk, Bulgarian, klezmer...

Goodies abounded on Super Bowl Sunday as, for the 20th consecutive year, "Doctor to the Stars" and Fulfillment Fund founder Gary Gitnick, chief of the Division of Digestive Diseases at UCLA School of Medicine, and his gracious wife, Cherna, opened their home...

Joe Louis' boxing match against Max Schmeling at Yankee Stadium in 1938 remains one of the great sporting events of the 20th century -- even though the fight in front of nearly 70,000 spectators lasted all of two minutes and four seconds.

It's a shame that in her zeal to pin the state's budget problems on the Democrats, Jill Stewart attacks the community colleges and the disabled community in her opinion piece, "Math Problem" (March 19).

Merhav Mohar never lost a match until a Latvian at the Sheraton Plaza in Israel took away his winning streak. KO'ed in the first round, the 21-year-old Israeli boxer said, "It was the best knockout ever seen in the Holy Land."

Dmitriy Salita doesn't fight on the Sabbath, which gives his competition a much-needed day of rest from this powerful junior welterweight. With a 13-0, 10 KO record, the 5-foot-9, 139-pound fighter who goes by the moniker "The Star of David," is a rising star in the boxing ring.

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